Killing Floor in.. Starcraft!?

[Abyx]

Yeah, so, I've always loved mapping for Starcraft, I've only ever finished one map and that was a remake and a team project of a classic map that me and friends shared, it was never released.

So, lately I've been learning extended terrain from the 'best Badlands terrainer' in Starcraft, sort've. I figured if I joined a community of mappers, I'd get better and finish a map.

If it's okay with Alex, I'd like to take some city terrain I've been trying to perfect as best as possible with the crappy blends the badlands buildings use and turn it into a KF RPG sort've map. I have quite a few ideas for it, character personality ready, some of the terrain mapped out(Would cover an apartment building a little bit, the sewers, city itself, Horzine building and maybe some other places). I'd really like to turn it into a tribute to my favorite game(Yes, game) in a long time.

The 'city' I've made, is NOTHING like the West London you see ingame, so don't get your hopes up, but, here's a few screenshots I took of the terrain only, no units, from inside the editor.

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It's really blocky stuff, honestly, but that's really the best known method for making tall buildings in Starcraft.


Stuff I'd add to it would be a few different weapons, most likely consisting of: Berretta, L85C, Benelli M4, Deagle and maybe grenades and flash grenades. I'd use a dropship item and command system, beacon system for weapon switching, maybe a cripple system I thought up, possibly virtual HP and an atmospheric effect.

So, is this okay with Alex if I use his story ideas and such? It'd follow a DRF Marine finding out what happened to the city, but different settings and such.

[uwasawaya]

Wow man, Starcraft... Caesar and I just broke it out and were playing it the other day actually. If you need any help, support or testing, just ask.

[Abyx]

I'm still waiting to find out if it's okay with Alex.

And I forgot to add, this would be a single player RPG, and I'd give full credit to Alex for the story(And anyone else who contributed that I'm not aware of) and add links.

[Alex]

Oh.

Ok go for it

[Abyx]

Lol...you were waiting for that, huh?

[Dr. Macon Dead]

Starcraft?

I'm pretty excited for that mod to come out...I've been following it for a while, and it looks like it'll be pretty good when it comes out. I mean, if 2D starcraft is fun, 3D starcraft must be twice as much fun.

[Alex]

Well that's how it was from warcraft 2 to warcraft 3

A large part of that owing to the emphasis on heroes, however

[Dr. Macon Dead]

True that. Unfortunately, the FAQ suggests they aren't going to focus on heroes until possibly after the initial release, which is understandable considering they'd have to come up with unique hero classes and somehow balance them against one another.

Well, I guess they've got the infested ghost hero(kerrigan style), but other heroes really seemed like an afterthought in that game; just gave a body to the voices you heard before the mission.

[Abyx]

Funny thing is, I've been playing WC3 recently because I've beaten Starcraft's singleplayer and need something new.

I've been watching that mod for awhile, actually.

[uwasawaya]

Couldn't stand WC3 for anything... not sure why... only RTS I've liked a lot since Starcraft was Dawn of War...

Wish they hadn't cancelled Ghost...

[Abyx]

Ghost looked a little too...cartoony, in my opinion.


And by the way, since people seem to be posting in this and since I'm finally allowed to go ahead and use KF's storyline(Maybe even the Stalker panting if that's also okay with Alex), I've been doing a little work on the map, but I also need suggestions as to what units to use for what, this is what I got so far:

Hero Marine: L85C
Firebat: Benelli M4
Ghost: Beretta
Hero Ghost: Deagle

I'll probably add more weapons.

I'm not really sure what to use as the infected, the fleshpounds and Sirens will most likely be boss enemys(Special stuff like slowed down movement if I were to use something like the zealot). I know I'd use:

Infested Kerrigan: Stalker
Zergling: Crawler
Ultralisk or Hydralisk: Bloat

But no idea what I'd use for the others.

[uwasawaya]

Ghost with a Beretta? If anyone fits any weapon, it would be the Ghost with the Winch... their Canister Rifle was probably the coolest weapon in that game, and it was totally meant to be a long range rifle.

Good call on shotgun on the firebat. Give the medic the Beretta. Could use Zealots and give them axes or chainsaws...

Bloat should be Hydralisk, mostly because they both vomit/spit. Infested Terrans would make good Shrikes or something.

[Abyx]

Uh..you're confusing me.

There's one main character, the player(only one player) controls it, the unit represents the character and each type of unit I choose for it would represent the different weapons he has. There wont be melee weapons in the game unless I decide to make an ammo system.


Wtf is a shrike?

[Plankie]

I'm pretty sure he meant Scrake when he said shrike, as you probably understood... Scrake + shrine = shrike ;D

[Abyx]

Infested terrans would be kinda...stupid for Scrakes.

I might use infested terrans for grenades, have it deply and run after the enemys, or I might make it out of effects.


I did some work on it today, added the dropship triggers, weapon switching triggers, all the examining triggers for the Apartment Building and did more terrain work.